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Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
Openly
Ethics
Morality
Politics

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Outsider means I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain.
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To write has to be related to a drive inside.
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Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.
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You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap, stories are generated.
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I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.
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The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.
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My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.
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The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.
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To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways to connect over a book or books, whatever they may be.
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If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.
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The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
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I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
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It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there.
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Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.
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To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
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I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history.
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Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
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My skin was the border between the world and me.
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I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
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You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.
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